Women from all over the world gathered in Istanbul on May 9-10, 2015, to discuss humanitarian action from a gender-sensitive perspective. (more…)
Tag: Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)
Panel Calls for Greater Economic Agency for Women
On March 10, 2015, the Peace Islands Institute, Journalists and Writers Foundation, Global Businesswomen Association, and Institute for Economics and Peace held a panel discussion titled “Economic Empowerment of Women…
Panel Discusses Achievements and Challenges in Afghan Girls' Education
Working alongside Peace Islands Institute New York (PIINY) and the Permanent Mission of Afghanistan to the UN, the JWF Women’s Platform co-organized a panel on the achievements and challenges of…
1914-Peace-2014 Series Commemorates WWI through Dialogue
1914-Peace-2014 is an inter-religious and intercultural series of events marking the centennial anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War. The series kicked off its first event with a…
Panel Declares Violence against Women a 'Global Disease'
The JWF Women’s Platform took part in a recent panel titled “Laws on Violence against Women Presented by Women Judges,” which was a side event at the 57th session of…
JWF Speaks Out against Domestic Violence at UN Women's Event
JWF’s Women’s Platform gave a statement at the 57th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW57), a UN Women’s event held at UN Headquarters in New York from…
Minister Sahin Praises JWF for Courageous Coverage
Turkey’s Family and Social Policy Minister Fatma Sahin has praised the Journalists and Writers Foundation (JWF) for its members’ courageous coverage of important issues at a time when the country…